284 Aster History ; BARTHOLOMAEUS 
L. BarTHOLOMAEUS ANGLICUS 
What may be called the popular cyclopaedia of the middle 
ages, is the work De proprietatibus rerum by Bartholomaeus 
Anglicus. Bartholomaeus was cited by authors from Leland to 
Fabricius as “ Bartholomaeus de Glanvilla or de Glanvyle, a 
Franciscan monk of about 1360.’’ Latterly proof has been ad- 
duced that he must have written about 1256* and in Paris: and 
two undated MSS. may be as old as that year.f His learning 
was very wide; his mind fully saturated with Asristotle ; his re- 
marks on plants a quaint mixture of sagacity and childishness. 
He has no chapter on Aster, and few on the Compositae. His 
work is in Latin, in 19 books of which the 17th is on plants and 
describes 144 species largely from Plateario and from Constan- 
* The true date of Bartholomaeus as about 1256 has been reached by a most inter- 
esting series of steps, detailed by Meyer. After being taught to believe his date as 
1360, Meyer found two documents in the Paris University of the press mark 1300 and 
1303 which contained Bartholomaeus. A dated MS. of Bartholomaeus’ proved to be 
1300. Two undate S., on examination, seemed to be earlier, from 1260 to 1300 
that ‘‘ Bartholomaeus’ work is principally taken from Vincent de Beauvais’’), or of 
Thomas Aquinas, Roger Bacon, or Aegidius Romanus, who wrote immediately after 
1256, and that Bartholomaeus quotes Aristotle from a poor translation out of the 
Arabic when a better from the Greek direct appeared in 1260-1267. 
t Bartholomaeus Anglicus has also by confusion with Bartholomaeus Pisanus, been 
credited with the authorship of the ‘‘ Sermones de contemptu mundi,’ first printed = 
rancisci,’’a rare folio of Milan, 1 510, edited by Frater Franciscus Zeno ; with r : 
ma venerabilis Fratris Bartholomaei de Sancti Concordia, 
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than his‘ Summa seu Pisanella,’’ Venice 1474, 1476, Milan, 1479. . 
— ever were by Bartholomaeus Pisanus. Two others of similar name are to be disti- 
ed also among early printed books ; Bartholomaeus Brixiensis, a Copy of whose Com- 
cordia or Decreta Gratiani (Basle, M. Wenssler, 1481), is in Libr. Union Theol. Sem; 
and Bartholomaeus de Chaimis, whose Interrogatorium seu Confessionale is represented 
in Libr. Union Theol. Sem., by a copy issued at Venice in 1480, and in the N.Y. Public 
Library by the earlier issue by Valdater at Milan, 1474. The sermons of 
Bartholomaeus de Ursinis appeared at Naples, 1473, as the Quadragesimale s 
Epitoma Medicinae by another, one Bartholomaeus de Pisis, was of that period also. 
